A Stone For Nina
An excerpt from the chapbook:
These things remain of her:
two tsarist lamb’s wool schoolboy caps;
a silver cigarette box, inlaid with malachite, monogrammed “NC’;
two frayed copies of Soviet Life, plump farmers astride smiling red tractors;
and a faded sepia photo a high cheek-boned woman at the helm of a speed boat, cat-grinning at the camera, captain’s cap cocked jauntily to the left. On the back in pencil: Nice, France, 1946.
These things have been moved from Washington to New York to Baltimore, back to D.C., back to New York, to a tiny village nestled on the Hudson twenty miles south of Albany. They sit in a cupboard silted by spiders.
Nina lies in a potter’s field plot in an unkempt part of Washington. She’s been there for nearly forty years.
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About The Author
Paul Genega is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently All I Can Recall (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2013). Over a forty year career, his work has appeared in journals such as Poetry, North American Review, New York Quarterly and Free Inquiry, and has garnered numerous awards, including the “Discovery”/The Nation Award and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He founded and directed the creative writing program at Bloomfield College, New Jersey, where his legacy continues through the Genega Endowed Scholarships.